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My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
Suzanne Vega
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Suzanne Vega
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 11
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Santa Monica
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Suzanne Nadine Vega
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I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.
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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.
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I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.
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To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
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In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
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When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.
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If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
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It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
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That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.
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Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
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I still consider myself a feminist.
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I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.
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I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.
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I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
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I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
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My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.
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I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.
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I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
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